A Norwegian man on Saturday set the new world record for singing Elvis Presley songs for fifty hours, fifty minutes and fifty seconds straight in an online competition
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Race to the bottom: Museum curators in battle for #BestMuseumBum
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An app lets you de-stress by screaming at the Icelandic wilderness from afar
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The Football Association of Iceland released its new crest – to describe it as the most metal thing you've ever seen does it an injustice
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Check in but never leave: Taiwan offers fake flights for travel-starved tourists
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"Knull is Coming" - Marvel missing the fact that fantasy names can be words in other languages
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NASA’s 'smell of space' is available as a perfume
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London Tube map made from a working circuit board
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I asked 64,182 people about “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells”. Here's what I found out
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Three animal reproduction specialists fact-check ‘The Bad Touch’ by the Bloodhound Gang
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The International Space Station is getting a new toilet this year
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"All Gas No Brakes" is capturing America's weird underbelly on an RV road trip
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Copyright blocks interview of protesters because Marvin Gaye's 'Let's get it on' was playing in the background
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One of Copenhagen Zoo's giant pandas escaped from its enclosure early on Monday and roamed the park before staff were able to sedate it and bring it back
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A man emerges from a 75-day silent retreat in Vermont
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Bizarre scenes in tiny Western Australia town as 'sovereign nation' attempts to overthrow government
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Panic-buying: Australians top global charts for toilet paper stockpiling
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What to do when you're stranded in Alaska by a global pandemic and are trying to get back home to Norway – with twenty-four dogs in tow
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Retiring old service versions
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A good egg: Robot chef trained to make omelettes
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Danish Superliga club create virtual grandstand for fans to watch game on Zoom – three screens were joined together to make a 40 x 2.8m screen with space for 200 fan images
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Ottawa man shocked to find moose in swimming pool
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Remote cheering app could boost atmosphere in Japan's empty stadiums
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Denmark embraces live music drive-ins – musicians are finding new ways to reach their fans safely
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The Norimaki Synthesizer is a lickable screen that can recreate almost any taste or flavor without eating food
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She gets calls and texts meant for Elon Musk. Some are pretty weird
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The Kentucky miner who scammed Americans by claiming he was Hitler and plotting a ‘revolt’ with ‘spaceships’
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Toronto was obeying social distance rules. Then came adorable baby foxes.
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A South Korean soccer team has apologized for putting sex dolls in the stands to make things feel less lonely
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The Finnish ski resort of Levi, with its season cut short because of coronavirus, is saving its snow for next season
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Political consultant suggests rallying dems with giant, 'Fortnite-style' holographic Biden
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The cost of free doughnuts: Seventy years of regret
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Elon Musk tweets "Tesla stock price is too high imo", shares fall
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Japanese aquarium urges public to video-chat eels who are forgetting humans exist
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Motorhome lockdown: An Post deliver for a YouTube couple stuck in a Cork lay-by
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It's not every day that the face of a chief epidemiologist is inked as a tattoo – a very Swedish tribute
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Best funny Zoom background trick: Put yourself in a looping video so you can skip the meeting
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Man recreates supermarket at home for 87-year-old mother battling dementia
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Fruit trenches: Cultivating subtropical plants in freezing temperatures
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UNESCO suggests COVID-19 is a reason to create... eternal copyright
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A 1,000-year-old mill has resumed production due to demand for flour
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Postman delivers 'somewhere in Sheffield' parcel
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Rush for haircuts in Denmark – Danes can now get a haircut at a salon for the first time in a month, as the country takes the next step to gradually relax its coronavirus lockdown
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Control your Faroe Islands tour guide – the country is attaching cameras to tour guides and letting the internet control where they go
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Iceland's forestry service has come up with a novel way to overcome the sense of isolation many people suffer because of Covid-19 – hug the trees
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The battle over the Sea-Monkey fortune
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Sales of sex toys in Denmark have more than doubled after Danes were told to stay at home to limit the spread of the coronavirus
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Why you should not put garlic in your vagina, as a treatment for yeast or anything else
@Jennifer Gunter: Why you should not put garlic in your vagina.A thread.Garlic contains allicin, in THE LAB it MAY have antifungal (i.e. anti yeast) properties. This is in a lab, not even in mice. Just a dish of cells. Your vagina is not a dish of cells. #vaginaisanogarliczone 1/8
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Norway's hazmat booksellers – two Oslo bookshop owners deliver books wearing full hazmat suits and gas masks in order to raise local awareness
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